REFILL

REFILL
(dat. refli, pl. reflar), m. tapestry, hangings.
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m., dat. refli, pl. reflar, tapestry, hangings round the walls of ancient halls; refil sextögan at lengd, Gísl. 21; ok skyldu tjalda húsin … vel kæmi oss nú reflarnir þeir hinir góðu, 27; hann fal sik á bak reflunum, MS. 4. 41; Þyri lét taka ofan allan hallar-búning, en síðan lét hón tjalda í staðinn blám reflum, þar til er altjölduð var höllin, Fms. xi. 17; refla sæmiliga, Bs. i. 877. The churches in the Roman Catholic times were hung with such tapestry; reflar um kirkju, reflar um alla kirkju are standing phrases in the má’dagar; kirkja á refil er tekr um fram-kirkju alla, Vm. 46; fornan refil um kór, 21; refill fjórar álnir ok tuttugu ok er á Karlamagnús Saga (of hangings with embroidery from the Life of Charlemagne), Jm. 32; reflar um alla kirkju ok engi tjöld undir, Pm. 16; fornir reflar vándir, fimm reflar góðir, Dipl. iii. 4; refil-stubbr, a fragment of a refil, Vm. 157. In poetry a lady is called refla grund, brú, brík, Lex. Poët.: the shield is refill Óðins, Edda ii. 428: of sails, Fas. iii. 204 (in a verse).
II. [cp. refr], a serpent (?), whence the name of a sword, Edda 73.
III. the pr. name of a sea-king, Edda.

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